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The conviction of Germain Katanga for war crimes is a welcome step forward. But when it comes to crimes like rape and sexual slavery, international tribunals like this one have done a poor job.

A French court ruling effectively prevents any judicial remedy for people who are singled out by police for stops based on their ethnic appearance.

The UK Supreme Court has said no individual should be made stateless by the government, even if they could in theory apply for another nationality elsewhere.

The Netherlands Supreme Court assigned liability for three deaths at Srebrenica to Dutch UN troops, in a ruling with implications for the immunity of UN-mandated peacekeepers.

An administrative court in Berlin will rule on a complaint from three young German students, alleging discrimination on the basis of their “migrant” backgrounds.

Villagers in Margo Sari, a small village in Indonesia, are using the law to fight corruption and secure their future.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the right to freedom of assembly does not protect groups that promote racial hatred and negate democratic principles.

Across Europe, government responses to racially biased policing hovers between acceptance and denial. Now, in the face of an increasing body of research and community pushback, it seems some are getting the message.

A court in Rome has found that a census aimed specifically at people of Roma origin constitutes illegal discrimination.

More African states need to take steps to make the use of torture a criminal offense, and to set up preventative monitoring and other measures to eradicate its use.

Stripping UK nationality from a naturalized citizen could establish a precedent that would undermine international law aimed at combatting statelessness.

A month after Guatemala’s Constitutional Court overturned the genocide conviction of the former military ruler, the legal process remains in disarray.

An assessment of how Washington’s response to national security disclosures by Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden compares with procedures and penalties outside the United States.

A new set of global principles addresses the question of how to ensure public access to government information, without jeopardizing legitimate efforts to protect people from national security threats.

On the heels of a decision by a national court, the Committee against Torture urged the UK to set up a single independent public inquiry to investigate allegations of torture of detainees in Iraq.

The High Court in London has ordered the UK government to overhaul the way it investigates hundreds of allegations of unlawful killings and detainee abuse by British soldiers in Iraq.

The UN Human Rights Commission has found that a 2004 French ban on religious headcoverings at public schools breached a Sikh student’s right to religious freedom.

As Europe's economic downturns continues, the courts are being called upon to adjudicate social justice issues.

Africa's human rights commission has launched its first model law—on access to information—and its first general comments—on the interpretation of an aspect of women's rights.

A ruling from the European Court of Human Rights fails to require government precision in restricting supposedly dangerous anti-democratic speech.